conduct agriculture. In peasant economy, generally speaking, women's labor also predominates, and only in large-peasant and capitalist enterprises do men constitute the majority.

Among hired workers, women make up a smaller proportion generally than among family labor. Evidently, capitalist agriculturalists in all groups belong to the category of proprietors securing for themselves the best labor forces. If one assumes that the predominance of women over men is one of the measures of the constrained position of the proprietor and the unsatisfactory condition of the economy, deprived of the ability to make use of the best labor forces (and such an assumption inevitably flows from all the data on women…